When newspapers start to campaign – The Times Cities for Cycling

The email from my father this weekend started like this; Thomas, Can I bring your attention to The Times Cities for Cycling Campaign which is trying to make a real push to improve the cyclists lot and safety particularly in our cities but not exclusively. There are already some top people signed up to it (most [...]

Thinking outside the ‘Campaigns Target’ box…

Two excellent examples of campaigns ‘thinking outside the box’ when it comes to who they’re targeting with their actions show that we don’t always have to go after the ‘usual suspects’. First up is Greenpeace, who recently emailed supporters to ask them to support an action being organised by Liberate Tate campaign toward Tate boss, Nicholas Serota. [...]

What are the 10 best campaign films?

Can you help me put together a list of the top 10 campaign films?  Here are a few more brilliant campaign/advocacy films from the last few months that I think could be worthy of inclusion in any list of ‘top advocacy films’. Do you agree? What else would you add? These films supplement my suggestions in [...]

The key ingredients for a good campaign action….

Getting the ‘target’ and ‘ask’ right in your action is fundamentally important if you want to have a successful campaign, so here are some thoughts about what should go into a ‘good’ action. It’s not often that cry out in frustration at a campaign action but I did this week when a colleague forwarded me [...]

How campaigning dealt a blow to the Murdoch empire

The last few days have been fascinating for any watcher of UK politics, media or campaigning. Pages and pages have already been written about what’s happened with News of the World and BSkyB. I’m certain more will come in the next few days and weeks, indeed the story seems to change by the day. But [...]